Mojgan Rahnama, Masood Fallahi Khoshknab, Sadat Seyed Bagher Madah, Fazollah Ahmadi,
Volume 5, Issue 3 (6-2012)
Abstract
Spiritual care includes assistance in performing religious rituals to support those seeking connection to the spiritual world. It forms an essential part of holistic care and helps finding answers to issues concerning life, pain, and death. This study was conducted to understand cancer patients' perception of spiritual care.A qualitative content analysis approach was applied to conduct the study. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with convenience sampling of 17 cancer patients and their family members in oncology wards of a hospital in Tehran and Behnam Daheshpor Charity Organization. The recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim. For data reduction, data were labeled and coded before content analysis.The following themes were identified: characteristics and duties of nurses with a spiritual approach in religious and non religious domains, care with a spiritual approach in religious and non religious domains (emotional, communicational, functional), barriers to spiritual care.According to our findings, nurses do not satisfy all spiritual needs of the participants, because the characteristics and practices of nurses do not meet the expectations of patients and their family members, and ward environment does not support such care.
Mohammadreza Lashkarizadeh, Farzaneh Jahanbakhsh, Mitra Samareh Fekri, Bahram Poorseyyedi, Mahmood Aghaeei Afshar, Mostafa Shokoohi,
Volume 5, Issue 4 (7-2012)
Abstract
Disclosing the diagnosis of cancer to a patient could impact various aspects of their life. The present study was performed to evaluate the views of cancer patients about disclosure of the diagnosis of disease to them. The present study was conducted on 385 cancer patients in three teaching hospitals (Afzalipour, Shafa, and Bahonar) affiliated to Kerman University of Medical Sciences between 2010 and 2011. These patients were evaluated for their views on revealing the diagnosis to them using a questionnaire that included the type of cancer, demographic information and their preferred manner of being informed of the diagnosis. Out of 385 cancer patients, 155 patients (%40) were aware of the diagnosis of their disease. The majority of patients who were aware of their diagnosis (%89) said they would like to know the diagnosis before treatment. Almost all patients who knew the diagnosis preferred to be aware of the prognosis of the disease and the complications of treatment. The only significant demographic variable was sex men were more eager to know the diagnosis of the disease (P value< 0.05). This study showed that the majority of cancer patients would like to be aware of the diagnosis, even though most of them were unaware that they had cancer.
